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George Turner's Betrayal of His 

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GEORGE WILSON, Publicist, 

Formerly Judf^e in Dakota Territory- Senator in Wyoming Territory; Member 
Academy of Sciences, St. Louis; Late President Oldest Bank in Missouri, and Author of 
Financial Works. 



, [CopyriRht, 1904, George Wilson.] 

1 authorize any one to reproduce this wiieuever Gborge Turner runs for office. 



Equally with Virginia, the obi ,;:^ation to hoiior Washington rests 
on his namesake state. Blots now, like scars on young trees, will stay 
for life. Elsewhere one hears regrets that any state was called Wash- 
ington. Every false step will especially condemn her in these jealous 
states : if serious, will retard her development. Patriots avoid dis- 
honorers of George Washington's name. 

A New York paper stated that Turner was preparing for the effort 
of his life, denouncing the Alaska Boundary Treaty, but when tendered 
a place on the commission he dropped it. Beginning as an Alabama 
carpetbagger, his name describes his character. England wanted to 
make Portland Channel the Gibralter of the Pacific and cut us off 
from Alaska in wars. Canada is one of England's unconsulted 
" niggers." Rothschild, the Jew, who owns and runs England, 
craftily claimed Lynn Channel, that he did not want and knew he 
could not get. Vancouver, the authority, says he went up the " broad 
arm of the sea" to its forks (Point Ramsden, about latitude 55,) thence 
up the easterly fork, left the vessels at Salmon Cove in it, naming it 
Observatory Inlet. Came back in small boats, rounded Point Rams- 
den, went up the westerly fork to its end, returned, and about latitude 



55 entered the passage between the present Pearse Island and the 
westerly main shore : went down through that, so narrow, intricate 
and dangerous even for small boats that one was nearly lost. Con- 
tinuing he explored Boca de Quadra, Behm Channel, etc., and return- 
ing found himself before "the broad arm of the sea" again, and says 
there he named it Portland Channel in honor of the Bentick family 
(one of whom was Duke of Portland). He returned up it in the small 
boats as originally the ships had gone, and on up to Salmon Cove 
where the ships were. On leaving finally Vancouver compares the 
channels on the two sides of Pearse Island thus : " the route by which 
the vessels had advanced to Salmon Cove being infinitely better .... 
than the intricate channel through which I had passed in the boats, 
we weighed with the intention of directing our course thus," etc. In 
the Congressional Library, under Turner's nose, is British Admiralty 
Chart No. 2458, corrected to March, 1900, on which the passage 
between Pearse Island and the westerly mainland is named "Pearse 
Channel." Yet Turner consented that this "much narrower and 
practically unnavigable channel" (as Mr. Balch, the highest authority 
livirg, calls it in his book,) which the English themselves named 
Pearse Channel, is " the broad arn of the sea" up which Vancouver's 
ships went, and which he " named Portland Channel in honor of the 
Bentick family" ! 

"When Rothschild first ordered England to steal Portland Channel, 
an American tory manufactured the lie that Vancouver's map and 
narrative disagree. Thereupon England claimed that the name 
" Portland Channel" had been wrongly placed on the map. But 
Boca de Quadra, Behm Canal, Revilla Gigeda Channel or Clarence 
Strait is the only possible water whose name could have been erro- 
neously exchanged with Portland Channel, if any had. If, for 
instance, Behm Canal could have exchanged names with Portland, 
England would have made a much bigger steal. But these were 
accurately described and located in connection with their names, and 
this plan of the theft would not work. Thus the theatre of the theft 
was narrowed down to Portland Channel between its mouth and 
latitude 55. And the manner of the theft was to declare that the 
British map's "Pearse Channel" is Portland Channel. This Turner 
did. But in thus transferring t) iJ name of Portland Channel it leaves 






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[N. B. — The name Pearse Cliannel on this map is from the British 
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the true Portland Channel without a name ! As bare-taced a theft as 

Turner helped to perpetrate against his country ought to make a 
convict blush. Besides Pearse Island and Portland Channel, Turner 
also helped to lose us on the main land a gold country as large as 
three New England States, that England never dared to claim from 
Russia. Had Turner defeated"" 

that robbery of his country he would have immortalized himself. The 
administration did not want a man where it put him. It knew what 
it wanted and got it. And Turner knew what he wanted and got it. 
Having betrayed his country Turner now, with brazen impudence that 
would shame a three-card-monte dealer, asks to be elected Governor 
of the State of Washington as a reward for that betrayal. If I were a 
Democrat I should rather elect a Republican traitor than a Democratic 
traitor Governor of Washington. When democracy came to mean 
Cleveland it ended my life membership in that party ; but have twice 
voted for the honest patriot, Bryan, and am against Roosevelt. We' 
must send the flags of the three remaining European monarchies ouf 
of the Western hemisphere as we did Spain's. British Columbia was 
stolen from us and must be recovered. Washington, the picket guard 
should not be commanded by a betrayer of his country. I have long 
wished to make Washington my home. To me it seems the best of 
the states. But it would be a sore affliction to live in a state that had 
once had a betrayer of his country as its governor. I have a special 
reason to plead with Washingtonians not to thus dishonor the name of 
the greatest figure in human history : my mother's ancestors and kin 
are connected with Washington's family by at least five intermarriages. 



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